Music videos?
I’ve decided to create a couple of short films or videos to complement some tracks from my CD Head Room. I am very excited about this because I feel that the music I write lends itself very well to film. In fact when I play gigs with this material, I always have a screen set up behind the band with graphics projected onto it which change and move with the music. This has always worked very well so now I want to take this idea to a new level.
The prospect of doing this is both exciting and a bit daunting as I haven’t worked with film before. I am going to document the process of creating these videos here.
So, first off I have obtained the necessary equipment in terms of a new digital camcorder which I am going to use with iMovie or Final Cut Express on my Macbook to record and edit the movie. I will probably use Soundtrack Pro to bring the video and soundtrack together.
I have also begun the process of getting ideas for the first video from listening back to the CD. What I have done is to listen to each track while simply free-associating to it, allowing images, emotions and ideas to well up. I have written these down as they come up. The next step was to choose one track which I have done; I chose the one which seems to lend itself to a story or narrative more than the others. There are definite possibilities for videos in some of the other tracks but I will start with this one.
Next I’ll sit down and attempt to bring some of these random associations into focus and put them together into a more concrete idea from which I hope to begin to write a screenplay. I am using a great (and free!) programme called Celtx to track all my ideas and images etc. as well as to write the script. I can also story-board the film from within the same programme. Brilliant.
I am fortunate in that my partner is both an actress and a screenwriter so she will give me a little help with this project when I need it.
I’ll come back and write again as soon as I go onto the next stage.
Here’s the CD cover. I will put up some of the other artwork with future posts:
